STUDENT ELIGIBILITY

Student must: 

• Be identified as a child with a disability under Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, or by a school district, or be eligible to receive special education services from a school district under state law and have an individualized education program (IEP); or
  
  
• Attend (or be an entering kindergarten student zoned to attend) a public school or school district that received a letter grade of a “D” or “F” from the Arizona Department of Education; or
  
  
• Have a parent who is an active-duty member of the U.S. military or was killed in the line of duty; or
  
  
• Be adopted from the state foster care system or placed with a family and have a case plan of adoption; or
  
  
• Be a sibling of a current or former ESA student; or
  
  
• Live on a Native American reservation; or
  
  
• Have a parent that is blind or hearing impaired
  
  
• Be in grades K-12 or preschool students with disabilities are eligible if they have a multidisciplinary evaluation team (MET) report or an IEP from an Arizona public school.
  
  
• Student must have attended public school as a full-time student for the first 100 days of the prior school year; have participated in the Empowerment Scholarship Accounts Program in the previous year; be entering kindergarten; or have parents on active military duty

PARENT REQUIREMENTS

Must sign an agreement to:

• Provide an education in the subjects of reading, grammar, mathematics, social studies and science
   
• Not enroll students in a school district or charter school 
  
  
• Release the school district from all obligations to educate the student 
  
  
• Not accept a scholarship under any of Arizona’s tax credit scholarship programs 
  
  
• Use the money deposited in the empowerment account for purposes specified in the law and spend accumulated ESA dollars on basic education subjects.